[OWW-SC] usernames

[Julius Lucks]

I'll volunteer to change my name.  2 points though:

1.) I would recommend not having a period for the middle initial
2.) I am not a 'Bureaucrat' (well I am, but OWW does not recognize me  
as one), so can you please change my name from 'Lucks' to 'Julius B  
Lucks'

Thanks,

Julius

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On May 3, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Austin Che wrote:

>
>     As discussed in the SC meeting, we've agreed that we want to have
>     people use their full names for their usernames, and that the
>     login can be made to use their emails.
>
>     Logging in via email addresses will take some coding and we need
>     to ensure there aren't duplicate email addresses (which there
>     definitely are currently). So I think we should punt on this until
>     we hire a developer and can sort out that each person has a single
>     account.
>
>     However, it seems that the first step can be done independently
>     for people who don't care about logging in with their name instead
>     of their email (especially for frequent users, your username is
>     saved in a cookie anyway so it doesn't matter).
>
>     I would suggest that we standardize that people should use a
>     username that is equivalent to the name they publish under (so
>     including middle initial or whatever else they normally use) and
>     including spaces e.g. "User:Foo Q. Bar". In the future, this will
>     also make it easier to connect authors together and also make name
>     collisions more rare.
>
>     I've installed an extension for renaming users:
>     http://openwetware.org/wiki/Special:Renameuser
>
>     This extension reassigns all edits and also moves all user pages
>     to the new name. I think you need sysop privileges to use
>     this. Note: if you're using a private wiki, you may have some
>     issues as the usernames on the private wiki won't be moved also. I
>     think you should first rename the user on the private wiki and
>     then on OWW. We should test this out before thinking about a
>     larger rollout.
>
> -- 
> Austin Che           <austin at csail.mit.edu>          (617)253-5899
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